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2 Dads by David Auburn
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Peter Gallagher
Bobby Cannavale and Peter Gallagher star in this short about fatherhood. In the comic and heartbreaking 2 Dads by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award win...

Bought by KUNM and KUER


  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 21:39
  • Purchases: 2
I Love You by Lynn Rosen
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Steven Boyer
Starring comic legend Bill Irwin, Tony Nominee Steven Boyer, Broadway stars Len Cariou and Michael Urie. In I LOVE YOU by Lynn Rosen, a struggling ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 24:14
Misadventure by Donald Margulies
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Timothée Chalamet
Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) and Zoe Kazan (The Big Sick) star in Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies' Misadventure. In ...

Bought by KZYX and KUNM


  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 12:12
  • Purchases: 2
Cora and Dave Are Getting Older by Julia Cho
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Julia Cho, Credit: Zack DeZon
Cora and Dave Are Getting Older a young woman has returned from a dinner out with friends and confides in her husband she fears she doesn’t measure...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 21:05
  • Purchases: 1
Gun Show by David Auburn
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Bobby Cannavale
Featuring Emmy winners Bobby Cannavale and Martha Plimpton, and recorded live on stage at Playwrights Horizons, the entertaining and timely GUN SHO...

Bought by KUNM, KZYX, and KUER


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 32:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Father's Love: Two short plays by Lynn Rosen and Andy Reynolds
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Bill Irwin
Starring Bill Irwin, Steven Boyer, Len Cariou, Michael Urie. A FATHER’S LOVE celebrates the unbreakable bond that exists between fathers and childr...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, KUNM, WHRV, and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Oct 02, 2017
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
#775-Earth movers, crooks, dawdlers, spinners and more
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Ok so Host Marc Cuniberti is on a run of off the wall news pieces. Another "not so normal" news piece. Once again its not about the stock markets b...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
Novelist Kristin Hannah and “The Nightingale”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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It’s 1939 in southern France and World War II is taking over the lives of two sisters, Vianne and Isabelle. In this well-researched historical nove...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 1
Attention by Holly Walter Kerby
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]
Caption: Steven Boyer
In Holly Walter Kerby’s Attention, Amber (Tony nominee Celia Keenan-Bolger) is bummed out that her boyfriend has visited his family without her. Sh...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 17:56
Small Fists
From: Ryan Trauman
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A flash-fiction story told from the perspective of a boy getting his bearings in the grown-up world of funerals.

  • Added: May 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:01
Seeing Her Right Back
From: Ryan Trauman
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A short, flash fiction story about a young boy riding in a car with his grandmother. He is in awe of her awe.

  • Added: May 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:27
Listen Up: Two Short Plays
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Carol Kane
Carol Kane, Julie White, and Steven Boyer are among the stars in these two shorts. It’s spring in the neighborhood "Hell’s Kitchen" in SOMETHING I'...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
It's Groundhog Day!
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Groundhog Day fully explored...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:27:06
  • Purchases: 1
Bowie, Jefferson's Declaration Day & Elongated Skulls
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Space tribute to Ziggy Stardust, the State of Jefferson is declared from the West steps of California's capitol and elongated skulls found by arche...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:20:36
A Christmas Carol
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge and company -- and several spirits -- tell a tale of redemption...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:51:09
Crayons have feelings? Drew Daywalt and "The Day the Crayons Came Home"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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His box of crayons on his desk inspired Drew's first book, "The Day the Crayons Quit." His parents' generosity served as the bedrock for his latest...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Time Tunnel (mix)
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: Highlights
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This alternate theme to "The Time Tunnel" has been used on a couple of THE TIME TRAVELER Mondays Late Night Radio Shows, as its end title.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
The Best Laid Plans
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: Highlights
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You might not expect this to result from the best laid plans, nonetheless... (Rob plays with F/X and the opening theme to "The Time Tunnel")

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:28
The Write Question - Craig Lancaster - 245
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Craig Lancaster talks about and reads from his fifth novel, THIS IS WHAT I WANT. He also describes his journey from copy editor to full-time author.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KSJD, KCMJ Community Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Can You Help Me Find My Mom?
From: The Truth
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A little girl is lost.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 1
Mother and Son: Two Plays by Daniel Reitz and David Cale
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Jane Kaczmarek
Jane Kaczmarek ("Malcolm in the Middle") stars in the touching and humorous first piece, Napoleon in Exile, directed by Marsha Mason (four time Aca...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Christmas That Almost Never Was
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Christmas Programming
Caption: A classic OTR from the voice of Yogi Bear!, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
A classic old time radio play by Daws Butler.

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KMXT, KRPS, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 29:52
  • Purchases: 4
The Comedy-O-Rama New Year Special
From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: Joe Bevilacqua Christmas Programming
Caption: Judy Tenuta, Stuart Pankin, and Bob Camp Ring in the New Year, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
Bob Camp, Stuart Pankin and Judy Tenuta help The Comedy-O-Rama Hour ring in the New Year, presenting some of the funniest moments from the improvis...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 59:57
Delivered with Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew reading an excerpt from her book "Hannah, Delivered."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Daniel Woodrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Award-winning author Daniel Woodrell, discusses his 2013 novel THE MAID'S VERSION. Told around a mysterious and tragic explosion at a 1920s dance c...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1